I'm not. It's just PCs... plus a few graphics cards and so on... meh.
No Mark, and you can predict my answer:
They use the PC's just like we did in the 70ths and 80ths, as a
Terminal to bigiron. (Well, cloud is basically accumulated iron, but very much bigger than bigiron in the past...and still uses old school bigiron too.)
Nothing new there....
Been there, seen it, used it and I know for sure you did too...
Seems you have forgotten part of your past?
And it is not pattern matching as such, it is set theory. Pattern matching is just one of the ways to reduce to a set, and the slowest one, combinatory theory being the fastest. (pattern matching
starts with a given pattern or partial pattern, combinatory theory
reduces to a pattern. It does not need a pattern or partial pattern)
What worries me personally about those complainers is that they have forgotten about such simple things in math like Venn diagrams and set theory to either explain big data and its risks or implement access to big data . Now that is for another story... Hm, you can explain sixth graders what risks they are taking on the internet, just by showing them Venn diagrams (I did that on my youngest daughter's (14 - 15 year age range) secondary school and they all got the point. No big math involved.) I bet you many on this forum can not even use them or set theory properly, let alone see the impact. And, hey it is a Pascal forum, they should know sets.....(NOT
) and combinatory math on sets (NOT AT ALL
)
Yes, I am a grumpy old man...
Regards,
Thaddy